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Re:Git Magic by manojlds on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @01:21PM (#3672145)
What do they mean by the below in the Git shortcomings section:

Git on MSys is an alternative requiring minimal runtime support, though a few of the commands need some work.

Need some work on what? I hate it when some statements are made without giving any explanation

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Re:Git Magic by JBiserkov on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @01:27PM (#3672173)
From ReleaseNotes.rtf

Known issues -Some commands are not yet supported on Windows, namely: git archimport, git cvsexportcommit, git cvsimport, git cvsserver, git instaweb, git shell. -git and bash have serious problems with non-ASCII file names (Issue 80, 159)

There are other known issues, but I think those are the most important.

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Re:Git Magic by manojlds on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @01:23PM (#3672152)
And this one:

Git may be disadvantaged more than other systems because single files are not tracked

Though I get what they are trying to tell here ( I know git to an extent), a newbie will definitely be lead down the wrong path with this line. I am doubting this entire thing has any magic at all.

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